Marsdenia.] lxxxv. asclepiade.e (brown). 419 



upper Guinea. Lagos : Oyo, Barter, 3426! Millson ! Sierr.i Leone • near 

 Eendembu, Scott-Elliot, 5651 ! 



2. M Schimperi, i>ec?7ie. in DC. Prod. viii. GIG. A woody 

 climber, with pale brown bark; young parts closely subtomentose 

 Leaves spreading; petiole |-1 in. long; blade 2-4 in. long, 1-2} 

 in. broad, ovate or elliptic-ovate, more or less abruptly acumiDate, 

 broadly rounded at the base, tomentose or pubescent on the petioles 

 and veins on the underside, pubescent above on the veins and with 

 minute hairs sprinkled over the surface. Cymes lateral, pedunculate, 

 many-flowered, lJ-2 in. in expanse, about half as long as the leaves^ 

 tomentose on all parts except the corolla; peduncles i-J in. long ; 

 bracts about 1 lin. long, lanceolate or ovate, acute, deciduous ; pedicels 

 4-G lin. long. Sepals 1 J-2 lin. long, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acute. 

 Corolla-tube globose-campanulate, 1^-1 J lin. long, sparsely hairy 

 within : lobes spreading, 2f-3J lin. long, |-1 lin. broad, linear-oblong, 

 obtuse, more or less twisted, glabrous, minutely ciliate along one 

 margin at the apex. Coronal -lobes 1 lin. long, erect, lanceolate, acute, 

 their basal part adnate to thestaminal-column, with thick free margins, 

 their apical half free, shorter than the anther-appendages. Staminal- 

 column, IJ lin. long, conical; anther-appendages very membranous, 

 more or less connate into a tube. Apical part of the style exserted 1 1 

 lin. beyond the anther-appendages, very slender, slightly tapering', 

 obtuse. Follicles 3 in. long, J in. or more thick, ovate-lanceolate' 

 tapering gradually to an obtuse point, softly pubescent, probably fleshy 

 or leathery when alive. Seeds 5 lin. long, 2J lin. broad, plano-convex, 

 with a narrow marginal wing, glabrous, light brown. — A. Rich. Tent. 

 Fl. Abyss, ii. 42 ; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 343 : Maitelli, 

 Florul. Bogos. 55; Penzig in Atti Congr. Bot. Internaz. 1802, .'UD ; 

 K. Schum. in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 292. Cynunchiim 

 Schimperi, Hochst. ex Decne. in DC. Prod. viii. G17. Gymneiiia / 

 macrocarpum, A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss, ii, 43 ; Walp, Ann. iii. G2. 

 Traunia albijiora, K. Schum. in Notizbl. Kunigl. Bot. Gart. Berlin, 

 1895, 23 ; in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 32G ; and in Engl, .t Prantl, 

 Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 283, fig. 85, T-V, and 287. 



Wile Iiand. Eritrea : Mount Alam Kale, Schiceinfurfh Sf Jtira, 1626! near 

 Samhar, and from the Eiver Amba to Monkullo, Penziq (ex Heuziij) ; Keren. 

 Beccari, 292! Habab; Rora Azgede Mountains, Eildehrandt, 488 (ex Enql(r). 

 Abyssinia : near Gennia, Schimper, 260! Adowa, Quart in Dillon c^' Petit .' Shireh ; 

 Beless Plain, Quartin Billon (drawing seen !) ; Shoa. Petit (ex Richnrd) : .leiula, 

 Steudner, 260 I Gafat, Steud>}er, 761 (ex Engler), and without precise li»e<ility, 

 Schimper, 1012 ! Quartin Dillon j- Petit, 20 I 



Mozaxnb. Dist. German East Africa: Kilimanjaro; Maraniru, kkK) ft.. 

 Vol kens, 2110 ! 



Vatke (in Oest. Bofc. Zeitselir, 1876, 146) suggests that Gymuema mncrocurpttm, 

 A. Rich., may be the same as Astephanus Schimperi, Vatke (now P<>d,,stelma 

 Schimperi, K. Schum.), but an examination of Richard's tyi)e made for me hy 

 Mr. Burkill proves it to belong here. 



